"Harvests souls" when owner kills player/mob that yields exp or honor. Pet doubles as vendor with unique items sold only to owner.

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Exclusivity

Trading Card Game promotion.Loot code required.

Pet Journal Limit

3 allowed

Date Posted

June 19, 2008

Notes

This pet, the largest land-based companion to date, is redeemed through the extremely rare 'Ethereal Plunderer' loot card from the World of Warcraft The Hunt for Illidan TCG expansion. The card may be scratched to reveal a code allowing access to this pet. The code may be redeemed at Blizzard's promotion retrieval page. The pet may be obtained in-game from Landro Longshot in Booty Bay.

This pet doubles as a specialized vendor. When its owner kills a mob that grants experience or honor, the Ethereal Soul-Trader will "harvest its soul", yielding a small amount of Ethereal Credits to the owner. In exchange for this currency, the following items may be purchased:

I just got my Ethereal Soul-Trader today from someone in trade chat for 17k plus some spare Salvage Blood (was going for almost 30k on AH). I LOVE THIS GUY. Sure it's annoying when you are trying to loot something he's on top of it. But he's so adorable and he sells the most useless stuff but who cares!. This guy with his zappy hands is my new favorite pet!

Today I saw 3 (!!!) of them on my auction house, two ranging 50-60k and one 25k, so naturally I couldn't resist and bought it. What is surprising, I've never seen this pet, neither on AH or summoned, until recently, which got me thinking whether they all come from legal source...

I've found the best way to farm the credits at Lvl 90 is at the silken fields, small clusters of moths. They can be one shot and yield credits. Aoe can be used for obtaining credits, however you'll lose some as he needs time in between kills to harvest, and if you kill a bunch at once he skips a bunch. Single target castable spells seem to work best.

Trying to obtain this on my server now. Saw a few evade me on the AH for 56k gold, but alas, they were on ally side where i has not enough gold. I msg'd the seller, but haven't heard back - was hoping to obtain from seller through neutral AH.

So insanely happy at the moment. I just found this awesomely expensive pet for 53k on the auction house on my home server. I can't wait to level him and then go start earning shards. I couldn't really decide between the names Windbag and Tatters for him.

Ranged players may find a bit complicated reunite the credits needed to purchase the garment this pet sells since you need to fullfill several conditions to obtain a credit:

Soul Trader must be at you side at all times. If you run from one place to other he's usually left behind, so you have to wait for him. Second, you (and he) must be near the corpse whe's going to suck. And finally, it must be YOU the one who delivers the killing shot: hunter and warlock pets will interfere with this.

Love this guy so much! He does get in the way when I'm doing something, but I'm totally ok with that just to have him. The best part was using him in raid and being a hunter and taking out the oozes from the Shaman in SoO, he goes nuts getting me shards. Which I'm saving up for ...not sure yet, lol. But the count (at the moment) is 700+.

Fighting wise, he has some cool magic attacks, but I stick to my Nether Faerie Dragon in that department. Sorry Ethereal-dude.

Just got this badboy today, was an early birthday/Christmas gift for myself (I call that a "from me, for me" gift lol). I haven't battled him yet, but he's pretty damn cool. I've been wanting to collect him for awhile and I'm happy to have him in my collection. The only thing I'm bummed about, is the fact that you can't sell trash items to him, you can only sell back the items you bought from him, for the credits back. That's the only drawback to him so far. He's well worth saving the gold for.

One of my favorites and a good attention-getter, although he can be a bit annoying at times since he says "I have arrived, shall we set to work then?" every time you dismount or zone.

When battle pets went live he sadly shrunk by about half, previously he was taller than my dwarf characters. A Blizzard blue post confirmed that this was intended "to scale him to fit better with other battle pets". Now I have to use a Papa Hummel's Pet Biscuit if I want him to regain his former size. :(